04 Apr 09 PR and Me – Does it really matter?
Many MMO and SEO guys talk about PR every now and then, Recently, new PR from Google has been updated. Does it do any good for you or bad? For me, I never care about PR much because it’s just a measurement of Google. I understand higher PR, we can sell links and etc, but I care more about unique and repeated traffic which will eventually bring success to you in the long run.
The funny thing is Google has been kind to me. I use do-follow enabled plugin which is actually a good one for Wordpress bloggers, many actually said that once you have do-follow, you actually got hurt in PR, however, I believe that comment URLs are actually artificial link building and so that it doesn’t really matter about back links, maybe you generate some more traffic.
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I allowed do-follow commenting on 25th Feb 2009 with this entry named “Advantages of do-follow Plugin for WordPress“. At the beginning of the April, I have my first PR update. This site went PR0 to PR1 and another music video site of mine got went PR0 to PR2, they are relatively very young sites, both not older than 6 months. However, I have done link building carefully and slowly. So, in a couple of months, I am sure I will have something else to write about this again. 
Bottom line, don’t worry about giving do-follow enabled comments, because many sites are now exclusively collecting do-follow sites just for link building purpose.
So, my conclusion, I am stoked about getting my PR raised, but does it really matter? Not really. But this is a good example of doing things accordingly. So, check out my Massive Traffic and AtoZ SEO categories for more techniques and tips about getting good clean organic and natural traffic. My link building system is slow, because I am personally experimenting it, you get to do it faster because I have documented it every time I experience new techniques.
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Your site went from PR0 to PR1 and mine went From 1 to 0, i think a paid to post was responsible for this happening.
Any tip to get my PR back?
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Linn Reply:
April 4th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
sorry to hear that, like I have mentioned in Link structures, you need to build natural links more than artificial links, if the place you sell was not selling the posts/links properly, you will have problem with PR, don’t feel disappointed, just keep building links. Maybe, your PR1 was mostly based on the directories, or maybe based on the text selling ads. Those could hurt.
Try to read SEO and traffic building categories, I experienced myself and first 3 months, I got no PR to 0PR, and next 3 months, i got 0PR to 1, the other site got PR0 to PR2. So, you can double check what you have done and what you could have done for next update.
good luck,
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I strongly recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section.
I’ll watch Google Webmaster Tools, and if the links don’t show up after a couple of weeks — I won’t go back to that blog again.
Another suggestion: you should have a Top Commentator widget installed.
Do Follow and Top Commentator will ensure that you have a successful blog with lots of readers!
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It’s ironic that this article on using NoFollow to prevent spam has been spammed by a spammer suggesting that you turn off the NoFollow setting. Google the comment above, and you’ll notice that he has been a very busy spammer (Google found 24,000+ comments from him).
Bloggers unite against spam! Leave your NoFollow settings turned ON!
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totally agree with a couple posts up. If you have no follow disabled you will get a alot more traffic.
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